Joy Batchelor Movies

Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.

This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet...

A BAFTA award nominated animation looking at the development of oil prospecting techniques since the 19th century.

In this film Charley demystifies the new state-funded National Health Service, detailing the benefits a free-at-point-of-delivery health service will...

The cartoon is one of the Marshall Plan's most popular films. A clash between a shoemaker and a hat maker illustrates the contrasts between...

Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm.

For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse — commit a crime every day, or die in agony....

Cartoon proof that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In this 1940s cinema advert, the tardiness of Signalman Squirrel's breakfast...

An introduction to the life and work of Joy Batchelor on the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Joy was a director, animator, producer and designer...

Charley, a mechanic, inherits a half-share in a farm run by his cousin and he soon has his dream of an idyllic country life rudely shattered by hard...

This World War II propaganda short encourages British people to "dig for victory," by planting vegetable gardens.

Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics.

A candlemaker entrusts his young son with the task of making candles for their church on Christmas Eve.

An animated cartoon on smoking and health. The villain, Old Nick O'Teen, disguises himself as an 18-year-old motorcyclist, the better to lure...

A powerfully graphic piece of animation that best expresses John Halas' own feelings about mans universal quest for freedom.

A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.

A dancing radio stops partying to transmit an announcement on fuel conservation in this WWII cartoon short.

A BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to...

Cartoon of chicken's adventures while being chased by woodland animal.